A Scenario Editor to Create and Modify Virtual Simulations and Serious Games for Mental Health Education

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed several limitations of existing healthcare systems. Thus, there is a surge in healthcare innovation and new business models using computer-mediated virtual environments to provide an alternative healthcare system. Today, digital transformation is not limited to virtual communication alone but encompasses digitalizing the network of social connections in the healthcare industry using metaverse technology. The metaverse is a universal and immersive virtual world facilitated by virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). This paper presents the first effort to offer a comprehensive survey that examines the latest metaverse developments in the healthcare industry, which covers seven domains: telemedicine, clinical care, education, mental health, physical fitness, veterinary, and pharmaceuticals. We review metaverse applications and deeply discuss technical issues and available solutions in each domain that can help develop a self-sustaining, persistent, and future-proof solution for medical healthcare systems. Finally, we highlight the challenges that must be tackled before fully embracing the metaverse for the healthcare industry.

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“…Category Challenges tion, irregular synchronization between the devices, etc., as discussed in [149]- [152].…”

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Healthcare in Metaverse: A Survey on Current Metaverse Applications in Healthcare

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“…In 2019 we collected narratives from individuals who live with mental illness and accessed mental health services using qualitative methods [55]. We used the findings to co-design a VSG representative of their lived experience and support for shared decisionmaking [17]. In the resulting scenario, the player (nursing students) must conduct a mental health assessment on the client's character (see Figure 16).…”

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“…Currently, adding or modifying 3D environments and characters needs to be implemented by game developers, but empowering educators and content creators to independently handle this is in our plans for future work. In this paper, we introduce and detail the Moirai and provide an overview of two case studies of serious games [17,18].…”

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Moirai: A No-Code Virtual Serious Game Authoring Platform

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Serious games, that is, games whose primary purpose is education and training, are gaining widespread popularity in higher education contexts and have been associated with increased learner memory retention, engagement, and motivation even among learners with special needs. Despite these benefits, serious games have fixed scenarios that cannot be easily modified, leading to predictable and dull experiences that can reduce user engagement. Therefore, there is a demand for tools that allow educators to create new modifications and customize serious game scenarios, and avoid the fixed-scenario problem and a one-size-fits-all approach. Here, we present and detail our novel virtual serious games authoring platform called Moirai, which uses a no-code approach to allow educators who may have limited (or no) prior programming experience to use a diagram-based interface to author and customize serious games focused on decision and communication skills development. We describe two case studies, each of which involved creating serious games for nursing education (one for mental health education and the other for internationally educated nurses). The usability of both games was qualitatively evaluated using the system usability scale (SUS) questionnaire and achieved above-average usability scores.

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